Beckett has impressed us with what a sweet boy he is. He's super snuggly, eats well, sleeps well, and generally hasn't been a problem at all! He's happy to eat, look around a while and practice holding up his head, and then snooze. Amazingly it's his sister that's keeping us up at night with a mysterious "mouth pain" that's meant I've been to the doctor four times in the 5 days that Beckett has been home and is waking up every hour crying. Beckett is sound asleep for four hour stretches and Emmy is waking up. All I can say is thank goodness for that and GiGi. (If she wasn't SO cute!)
I've blown through all the C-Section "don't's" pretty quickly, but I think those are pretty much for people with no other children. How on earth are you not supposed to drive, lift, climb stairs, or be anything more than a bump on a log with a two year old? Needless to say, Mommy is TIRED!
Beckett is also running though his "firsts"....
First thing home from the hospital he got to watch his first Aggie game with Dad. (Blake has been planning this since we scheduled the C-Section)
He had his first bath:
He also had his first (and second) doctor's visit. His important stats: - Weight: 7 lbs 1 oz
- Height:20.25 in (magically he shrunk a quarter of an inch from when he was born)
- Head size: 36% Yes, you read that correctly! Blake and I have a child with a BELOW AVERAGE head size!!! How this happened, I'm not quite sure.
At the next doctor's appt 2 days later: (we're still not sure why we had to have two so close together)
- Weight: 7 lbs 10 oz (the boy likes to eat!)
- Height: 20 in (at this rate he's going to disappear by the time he's a year old he's shrinking so quickly)
Other than going to the doctor and watching football, Beckett spent his time just being cute, which really isn't that hard at all!
Here are all the adorable princesses. 
This party made me so happy that I get to have a little girl. They were all so cute dressed up and when Rapunzel showed up, they couldn't quit giggling. They laughed and laughed and laughed. This is Emmy's friend Brooke from school. About half-way through the princess's performance, they decided that they'd had enough and went and found the playroom. Oh well!
She did come back around for a quick picture with Rapunzel, but about two seconds after this she went back to the playroom. (This all makes you wonder why we even pay for birthday parties at all when we could just invite people over and let them play in the playroom and they'd probably be happy. )
The team there made it really fun for us, showed us how to put on our makeup with a detailed lesson and even made us each our own custom colored lipstick! She matched our gums, how crazy is that! We had a great time and finished up celebrating Courtney's birthday with a yummy lunch at Ruggles Green. 
After getting glamed up (please do not judge the hair below) we headed out for not only restauraunt week, but Megan's 34th birthday with the fam at Antica in the Village. FABULOUS! The only way it would've been better is if i could've partaken of the champagne toast. 
putting diapers on the baby, 
swaddling the baby ( a skill that I can barely master) and then got a long discusion includeing a toilet paper tube on how to tell if a toy is too small for the baby to play with. Maybe a tad too conceptual with a bunch of two year olds? Needless to say Emmy's favorite part was putting the diaper on and off, on and off, on and off through the majority of the session. She's actually pretty good at it! Since her idea of putting her babies to sleep is smashing them face -down on the floor and covering them entirely with blankets, I think we'll just pretend like we never learned about putting Beckett to bed.
She very patiently sat through the toilet paper tube discussion and proudly "graduated" from her class to get her official big sister shirt. Then we went on a tour and we realized that she thought we were going to get Beckett all along. She kept asking "We're going to see Beckett?" Poor thing was NOT excited about trapsing all over the hospital, but I BET she remebers that the bed goes up and down when she comes to see us in the hopsital. =)
The next day we headed over for the traditional Moody Gardens day. We have used the hell out of the season passes that I swore to Mom we probably wouldn't use. We started out with the dinos. There is a traveling exhibit of these crazy dinos in a big tent. Last time Emmy was scared of them. Not this time. They were all Tyrannasaurus Rex's..... Her and Daddy growled at this one. We had to practically BEG her to leave. Strange...
After a quick stop at Dora. (I'm about done with that.) Then we headed over to the LAZZZZY river. Emmy loves that thing, althought they've added a ton of things that squirt you in the face and dump water on your head, which I HATE. It's not so lazy anymore. 
After stops at the wave pool and slides we decided we were DONE. It's too freaking hot for pregnant whales to be waddling around outside.
After nap/puzzle time, we headed over for a paddleboat ride! Whoohoo- right!!!, eh... We smuggled on some contraband bread and fed the birds from the back. That was the highlight of EVERYONE on the boat's trip. We seriously had little kids stealing the bread from underneath Emmy's feat and throwing it to the birds. Paddleboats that go in a big circle are not SOOOO exciting. 
Last year I was in Australia with Kangaroos on my birthday, so this year I decided to take it up a notch and go to Alvin.... WHOOHOO! jealous? We decided to go to the Animal Safari park. I think that Blake and I like it better than Emmy. We can't quit giggling.
Smelling the warthogs. 
so yes, they let THIS GUY just run around the park and come eat from your hand.. uh, that might have made me a LITTLE uncomfortable. 
All the fam came down to the beach to celebrate my 31st! Emmy nicely put the candles on my cake for me. 
The next morning we jumped in the car and drove to Caroline's Pirates and Pixies 3rd birthday party. Betsy had it decorated so cute. All the kids go to dress up and they even went on a treasure hunt!
After quick partytime, we headed BACK down to the beach for a cousin birthday party. Mom decorated with a hula theme and the girls got into it. 
They were SO Excited to play on the beach. Emmy decided that she hated the water again for some reason until the VERY end.
